PSY240H5 Lecture 11: Lecture 11/12 For those of you who missed class, these notes have all the lecture slides and my own notes taken integrated together in one neat word document. Great for last minute studying!
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Maladaptive behaviour in different life periods: developmental psychopathology. Origins/course of individual maladaptation in the context of normal growth processes. Important to investigate behaviour in reference to others . To check if a behaviour is maladaptive have to examine the age of subject. Temper tantrum at 2 years of age is reasonable but not at 7 or 8. Younger children- ns is not fully developed: can"t get full grasp of reality. Young children are especially vulnerable to psychological problems because. Don"t have as complex/realistic view of themselves and their world as they will have later. They have less self-understanding, anxiety, rage, depression, etc. Not yet developed stable sense of identity, understanding expectations, resources to deal w/ problems: children used to be viewed as miniature adults. Give them smaller doses of meds than adults (wtf??) From the original dsm, two basic behavioural disturbances in children. In 2nd half of the 20th century, diagnostic classification system focused on special problems of children.
